WAUSAU – A man accused of barricading himself in a room with two young girls and a knife was bound over for arraignment and trial Wednesday in Marathon County Circuit Court.

Ben Chapa, 46, who was staying at a Unity residence, where the incident is alleged to have occurred, faces charges in Marathon County Circuit Court of false use of 911, two counts of false imprisonment, disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property.

According to court documents:

Chapa called 911 repeatedly to report a home invasion in progress during which someone had been shot. He said he was barricaded in a room, trying to hold the door shut against the invaders, but when deputies arrived they found the outside doors to the residence locked and no evidence that someone was trying to enter the room.

Deputies from the Marathon County and Clark County sheriff's departments found a woman and two children asleep in other parts of the house, and Chapa in the room with 7-year-old and 10-year-old girls. The girls had been asleep in the room when Chapa came in and started moving a wooden table, they told police. He told them he heard a gunshot, and someone was trying to kill someone else.

He did not believe the deputies were law enforcement when they first ordered him out of the room and only came out when he saw a squad car outside the window.

Chapa was "extremely" sweaty and paranoid, with glossy eyes, and a deputy said Chapa might have been on a drug of some sort. Chapa denied being on any drugs but eventually said he snorted a "line of meth" before going into the living room to listen to music videos. He told police he then heard someone being assaulted in the basement, ran to the kitchen, grabbed a knife and ran upstairs to the girls' room, where he barricaded himself.

The woman who lived in the residence said she did not hear anything until deputies arrived.

Chapa's next court date is scheduled for Nov. 11.

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